Dumb-bell and indian club.



No. 675,314. Patented May 28, I90l. F. B. ABENHEIM.

DUMB BELL- AND INDIAN CLUB.

(Application filed Aug. 21, 1900.) .(No Model.)

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DUMB-BELL AND INDIAN CLUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,314, dated May 28,1901.

A li ti n fil d August 21, 1900. Serial No. 27,533. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIO B. ABENHEIM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, in the Stateof California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dumb-Bellsand Indian Clubs, of which the following is a specifica tion.

This invention relates to improvements made in dumb-bells of that classor description in which provision is made for graduating the weight, soas to adapt the same for the use of different persons, or to increasethe weight, as conditions may require.

The present improvements have for their object mainly to provide for aready adj ustment of parts, whereby the same can be separated and puttogether without requiring any special skill or the use of tools, topreserve the shape and symmetry of the article under all conditions ofchange or adjustment, and to enable a considerable degree of change orvariation in the Weight to be made without materially afiecting the sizeor dimensions of the article.

These improvements are applicable to the construction of graduatedIndian clubs, as well as to dumb-bells.

To these ends and objects my said improvements consist in certain novelparts and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed inthe specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part thereof.

Figure 1 of the said drawings is a general view of a dumb-bell embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing theseparable parts on one end detached from the handle. Fig. 3 illustratesthe application of the improvements to the construction of Indian clubs.Figs. 4 and 4 illustrate a slight modification in which a handle issubstituted for one of the removable heads of the dumb-bell to convertthe implement at pleasure into a club.

A indicates the handle, and B B the bells or heads on the ends. Eachhead is composed of two solid hemispherical parts or sections 1) o ofwhich one is permanently fixed to or is formed integral with the handleA, while the other section is fastened to the part b by a longscrew-threaded rod or spindle C, fixed in the partb, and a nut orthreaded socket (1, set in the other part. Between the two sections areseveral flat disks D D, of lead or other heavy metal, correspondingindiameter to-the transverse diameter of the head at the line ofseparation and having a central hole for the screw 0. The weight of thehead is changed and graduated to suit the user by unscrewing the othersection b of the head and placing on the spindle one or more disks D andthen inserting the screw in the socket of the other part and screwingitdown tightly to place. By this means the parts are drawn up closelytogether, clamping the disks between them.

A considerable variation in the weight of the head can be produced withrelatively thin disks, because all the disks are of the same diameterand are solid from the periphery to the cental hole, and a number ofthem can be introduced between the parts I) 1) without affecting thesymmetrical appearance or shape of the head, the screw-spindle beingmade of sufficient length for that purpose.

In applying this improvement to an Indian club, the screw 0 is fixed inthe removable end portion B Fig. 3, and the threaded nut or socket forthe screw is set in the end of the handle portion E the removable disksD being interposed between the two sections to obtain the desiredweight.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 4 and 4 a relatively shorthandle portion E is secured to one end of the dumb-bell, after removingone of the hemispherical heads I), and a handle-grip is therebysubstituted for the handle A for using the implement like a club insteadof like a dumb-bell. A screw O is fixed in the broad end of the handle Efor screwing it into the socket in the end of the dumb-bell.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described dumb-bell comprising two heads united by a handleand each composed of two sections, one of which is fixed on the handleand the other is removable, a fixed nut in one section, a fixedscrewthreaded spindle in the other section fitted to work in the nut,and a plurality of relatively thin disk-shaped weights having a centralaperture for placing them 011 the spindle, said disks havingapproximately the same diameter as the head and clamped between the twosections thereof. IO

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal.

FREDERIC B. ABllilllllM. Witnesses:

EDWARD E. OSBORN, WM. F. SMITH.

